Elkano's BuffBars
EBB provides groups of (mainly) statusbar style indicators to show (de)buffs currently affecting your char or some other units (focus, pet and target). For the player, it can also show indicators for temporary enchants placed on their weapons.
For over 20 years, EBB has been a mainstay for both long-term and returning players (at least some) and reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
Two-in-One Download
For Classic WoW, the addon uses its older 2.x code base, for Mainline WoW (Retail and Forever) it is now based on Blizzard's AuraContainer; all in the same download file.
2.x based on UnitAura
Version 2.x was a total recode, initially based on the Ace2 framework, later ported to Ace3, which became necessary in order to support some of the longtime wanted and suggested features. It has served well for ~19 years (since June '07) and made it possible to show different groups of bars which can be configured in many ways. Each group can be assigned an individual look and filter settings. After setting up a group, its anchor can be hidden by alt-left clicking a bar or the anchor itself in order to lock the group in place.
Due to changes Blizzard made with WoW 4.x it's no longer possible to cancel buffs without the use of secure frames.
EBB v2 thus limits cancelling of buffs to out-of-fight since using SecureAuraHeader would have required a major code restructuring.
This will be coming in a later version.
3.x based on AuraContainer
This is once again a complete artisanal rewrite, which became necessary due to Blizzard making auras secret in combat. This also gave me the push to include some features I already wanted but never included before. And you can cancel buffs in combat again.
Layouts can now be shared between groups, support multi-line/-column alignments, and give you way more options than before. But it can also just look the same as it used to.
What did suffer from the change of underlying technology are some of the filter options, as Blizzard has intentionally broken those.
And I haven't added localization to v3, yet. So most texts are in English besides a few strings reused from the game client.
Settings
The settings can be accessed via chat (/ebb), LDB icon, or simply via the game settings.
Other Infos
In order to get additional bar textures and fonts for EBB simply install e.g. SharedMedia which is available for download under https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/sharedmedia
If you have bug reports or feature request, create a ticket: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/elkbuffbars/issues
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Posted Aug 6, 2009any ideas?
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Posted Aug 5, 2009I've been using your addon for a while now and I'd really like to see it updated for 3.2. I've already changed the .toc file but I'd like to suggest that you allow users to configure their own events through EBB.
For instance, I know that my treants last 30 seconds, but I have no way of monitoring this. Or that when I proc Eclipse, it's on cooldown for 30 seconds. I also have a limited number of ways to monitor this. So the ability to start customized bars on spellcast or proc would be really helpful.
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Posted Aug 5, 2009I was just wondering if you're gonna update this add-on for 3.2
If yes then could you tell me when to expect it?
I'm asking this since i love the add-on and without it i don't know what to do
Greeting Skiy
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Posted Aug 2, 2009First of all great job on this addon!
But I've got a quite big problem at the moment with the localization.
I want to set specific buffs at one bar, for example : Slice and Dice for my rogue, the problem is, there is no german translation for it, called "Zerhäckseln" (Slice and Dice). Only a few skills are translated into my client language. For example, when I look for Vanish, I find both , Vanish and the german word "Verstohlenheit".
How do I set buffs for my language manualy, so they show up in the bar when I gain them. I've looked in the white list, but as I said , most of them are english and therefore my client doesen't recognize them.
There is an option to overwrite them, but this doesen't work for my neither, it just change the name of the buffs name but not the actuall skill that its detect.
Thanks in advance!
Help is much appreciated
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Posted Aug 3, 2009Or are you using some kind of UI compilation that had such groups preset? Since that's the only case I can think how the English names could slip in there on a German client.